The Ice Chorus by Sarah Stonich: Lyricism, love and tales of the unexpected in windswept Ireland

After a brief but life-changing holiday affair ends her eighteen-year marriage, Liselle Dupre moves from Toronto to a remote village on the west coast of Ireland. She gradually becomes acquainted with some of the locals, whose wholehearted charm and colourful stories revive her spirits and inspire her to make a documentary about their interwoven tales of romance. While she explores her new surroundings, Liselle comes to confront her own tumultuous past and her feelings for Charlie, the Welsh pai

Marriage is so crazy, it just might work

Sermon for 4 OctoberAs we listen for the Word of God, let us pray: You touch us in our place of need, Jesus, elder Brother; help us not to turn our faces, but to receive you as you come, that we may be channels of your grace now and for ever. Amen.ReadingMark 10.2-16Today’s Gospel reading treats the issue of marriage and divorce. Let me then read you some words on marriage by one Robert Farrar Capon, an author and a priest of the Episcopal Church of the USA. It’s a longish quotation, so don’t wo

Reading the Times While Brown — Marriage, etc.

Three stories caught my eye in the New York Times this weekend, but I found reading all three in a row a little dizzying. All three relate to love, dating, and marriage, and say something about life in the Indian diaspora. But the pictures painted by the respective stories seem to have little to do with one another. What happens if we line them up together? The first, from our news tab, is the story of a marriage between a Sikh, Parminder Suchdev, and an African-American woman, Danielle Ja

MAN AND WOMAN AS PROPHECY AND REVELATION (3): The Revelation of the Great Women Prophets

The holy prophetess Dehorah.(continuation from 2)III. The Revelation of the Great Women ProphetsIn the resurrection, they are neither married nor given in marriage (Mt.22:30). There is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus (Gal.3:28)When we think of the Old Testament prophets we are inclined to think only of the male prophets. We often lose the context of the great women of the Old Testament as prophets also. The tragedy in this is that it deprives us of the fulness of und

Mental note: Never hire Randy Thomasson to write our obituaries

We see lots of wacky things around here. Hell, we deal with Westboro Baptist Church on a direct and relatively frequent basis -- shocking us with far-right extremism is a difficult feat. But today, we came across something from Rany Thomasson 's Save California site ( which was a big backer of Proposition 8 and currently a big opponent of honoring Harvey Milk ) that appalled us even more than the time that Randy compared county clerks who have to issue marriage license to same-sex c

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